I personally prefer plasma's. but not one under £1000
it does suprise me how many people buy big screens and just plug in scarts/s-vid etc and sit a meter in front of it as say it looks shit
No point in having a screen over 40" if your not using at least component inputs and can't sit at least 2/3meters away from it IMO
Plus have a minimum a progessive scan DVD player aswell
SKY HD is the absolute bollocks but its very expensive and not a great deal to watch
x-box 360 is also very impressive

Remember these screens are more monitors then Televisons so will only display what you give them.. give them shit like scart s-video or composite then don't expect it to look good